Experimental research was evident in this study through the authors stating hypotheses, randomly selecting participants who fit the criteria for the study, and using the pre/post-test data as a statistical measure. ... ANCOVA was used as measurement for the data measuring pre-test/post-test, peer tutoring vs. traditional instruction, co-teaching vs. non-teaching, and students with or without disabilities. Mann Whitney U Test was used to measure instructional methods. ...

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As higher educators plan and implement strategies to assess the quality of their programs, they will face no more important decision than choosing which method(s) to utilize for measuring each objective. ...

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The three-point Likert scale was used for the questions based on the measures of performance and the quality of the written objectives in the IEP's, with 0 equaling not at all, 1 somewhat and 2 yes/evident. ... After the research the findings were that using the IEP tool can effectively measure the quality of IEP's for students with autism. ...

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Also, teachers feel exhausted with heavy workloads on non-teaching administrative duties and the adaptation to the ever-changing policies and measures carried out by the government. ... An evaluation about the measures by the government in teaching professionalization Realizing the challenges faced by the teachers, from the mid-1990s, the government has put great efforts in gradually professionalizing the teaching profession. ... Due to the word limits, only some of the measures about professionalization will be illustrated in this assignment. ...

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Therefore, before commenting if the education system is "good", we have to design a template to measure the success of the system. ... For example, due to the fact that schools in Singapore are ranked according to their student's examination results, the school administration has uses this measure of success as a motivator to ensure that students have a basic level of knowledge. Since there is no system to measure a student's moral development, much less talk about ranking schools upon this, schools are unwilling to invest time and energy in ensuring students have a sound moral and...

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He found that a combination of certain measures of arithmetic achievement, IQ, and ninth-grade marks were predictive of achievement in bookkeeping courses. ... Winger (77) experimented with college classes for one semester, utilizing timed writings throughout as measures of performance. ... Straight copy material was not a uniform measure of difficulty. ...

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Nevertheless, it is possible to reduce the legal and ethical dilemmas for teachers, school boards and the courts by taking preventative and proactive measures to reduce litigation and increase internal resolutions in such matters. ... By encouraging and facilitating such measures, school boards can support teachers in making sound and informed decisions. ...

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Implementing this kind of change requires some measure of creativity among the teachers, something some may not necessarily have, in order to vary assessments and develop instructional strategies to address cross-disciplinary concepts and ideas (Vars, 2001). ... Gathering this kind of information provides teachers and administrators with some additional measure of connection with the students who look to them for guidance and direction. ...

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Firstly, mathematics is a cultural product, a symbolic technology, engaging in environmental activities, these activities have been seen to be universal in all culture groups; counting, locating, measuring, designing, playing, and explaining. ... As a parent helper in a year one class the author was given the task of helping each child to measure and record their height in centimetres and then their weight in kilograms. ...

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As school officials they had the authority to institute corrective and preventative measures, but they repeatedly and intentionally failed to take the necessary measures to stop it. ... They must also take appropriate measures to protect students from the misconduct of other students, remove dangerous students from the school, contact police, and make out necessary reports for any crimes that take place on school grounds. ...

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Passing has important benefits, such as a high school diploma, a scholarship, or a license to practice a profession, etc. many school districts today frequently give tests to measure students performance and to hold individual schools and school systems accountable for that performance. ... The important goal of using high-stakes testing is to measure and improve student and school system performance is laudable, it is also important that such tests are scored properly too. ... According to EdChange.org, "As state-defined standards of learning and standardized tests become more and more c...

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In the article "The High-Stakes Testing..." Gary Orfield and Johanna Wald, both researchers at Harvard Graduate School, state that the policy of high-stakes testing was first conceived to help raise the educational standards but has only discriminated against high poverty and minority students. Pub...

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School Violence Violence among youth, especially in schools, is one of American society's most pressing concerns. Youth, like adults, are now more frequently using guns instead of fists to settle disputes. Also, whereas youth violence had once been thought to be an urban public school problem, sta...

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We can measure this in various ways, but, naturally, I come back to standardized test scores, a common indicator of academic success. According to the most recent scores of the Program for International Assessment, an international standardized test that measures the performance of 15-year-olds in mathematics, science, and reading, the United States placed 26th in mathematics, 21st in science, and 17th in reading. ...

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A reasonable way to look at this point is by measuring the between-school variation of student achievement in PISA studies. ... Furthermore, they want to avoid teaching exclusively for the tests and competition among students, because they think that testing must positively affect the student´s learning, not just measure the increase or decrease of the student´s mark in a particular test (Sahlberg, 2012, p.7). ...

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Classroom of America 2 Classroom of America: Inequality in the Educational System The United States of America has long been referred to as the "land of the free,"" a place where "all men are created equal."" But how united is America in the classroom? Within America there is a large population of peoples who have been, and continue to be, oppressed in this land of the free. They are not treated as equal, and are sometimes treated inferior in comparison to the dominant culture. Indeed, this cycle of inequality can begin at a young age, through the experiences...

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Republicans rejoiced in those victories, but observers say that the latent anti-Latino temperament of these two measures has forced the party to undertake some damage control. ... "Some Latino leaders have tried to describe Unz's measure as immigrant bashing, but their case was weak. ...

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America is faced with a challenge detrimental to the future success of the nation: education reform. This challenge was brought about by the idea that America's public school system is failing as a whole. There are many opinions as to why the system is not performing as it once had. These differing ...

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Although No Child Left Behind (NCLB) had admirable goals, it has actually resulted in dumbing down the American education system. According to the test rankings from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), American students' rankings in math, science, and reading continue to decli...

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Through the Foundational Learning Technical Task Team (Task Team of the Human Resources Development Council) we set out to identify blockages in the schooling system and propose measures that can be used to support the Department of Basic Education (DBE) in managing this. ...

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Advances in economic wellbeing and growths in literacy rate are not the sole measures of social progress. While it can be argued that colonialism benefited Africans with respect to these dimensions of welfare, it can also be argued that colonialism impaired the overall quality of life in Africa. In ...

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COMPARING TWO DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE TEACHING: GRAMMAR-TRANSLATION METHOD AND DIRECT METHOD I think nowadays different teaching methods are being used in combined ways depending on the teacher, the target language, the educational traditions etc. However, because of the globalisation ...

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Since the textbook provides teachers with guidance in course and activity design, it assures measure of structures, consistency and logical progression in class; It meets a learner's needs of having something concrete to work from and take home for further study. ...

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Imagine that you were reading your local newspaper and stumbled across this wanted ad: "Wanted, college-level individual, who is willing to put in outrageously long hours without compensation, who can work under extreme stress, who can work with unappreciative supervisors and cliental (many of whom...

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Stanley Aronowitz, author of "How Class Works in Education: A Memoir", states that in today's system "schooling focuses on preparing students for state exams ("teaching to the test") and for jobs while education teaches students how to think critically and explore new ideas, whether or not they're r...

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